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Thread: Parker: Days of Wine and blackjack . . . and LInux and Casino Verite

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    Parker
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    Parker: Days of Wine and blackjack . . . and LInux and Casino Verite

    As regular readers of this forum are aware, I run Linux as the primary operating system on my computers. I can do just about everything I need to do on a computer with Linux, and I don't worry about viruses, spyware, trojans, worms, etc. About the only thing I cannot do is run a few specialized programs for which there is no Linux equivalent - things like Casino Verite, CVCX and all those other way cool programs from Norm/Qfit. Fortunately, I now have options.

    It had been several years since I last looked at Wine, a Linux program that runs Windows applications, so this seemed like a good place to start.

    I'm running Debian Lenny these days, and getting Wine was as easy as "apt-get install wine." It is now in most of the major distros' repositories. Ubuntu users can simply "sudo apt-get install wine" or use Synaptic Package Manager.

    Wine has come a long way - the days of manually editing configuration files are long gone. A "Wine Configuration" icon will show up in your menu which will open an easy-to-follow configuration utility. You can pretty much just accept the defaults.

    Even better, when you right-click on a Windows executable file, you will find you now have an "Open with Wine" option. Cool.

    To test it, I popped a copy of Office 2003 in the optical drive, and ran the installation. The screen flickered a couple of times, which was rather disconcerting, then it installed without a hitch. Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc., all work perfectly. Even better, I now have a "Wine" submenu in my menu, and running Word, etc., isn't really much different from running a native Linux app.

    I find OpenOffice.org to be perfectly adequate for my Word Processing/Spreadsheet/Presentation needs, but it will be nice to have Word for that occasional .doc file that doesn't format just right in OpenOffice.

    Next, I installed Frugal Video Poker. It also installed without a hitch, even putting a shortcut on my desktop. It works perfectly - even the sound works!

    Okay, this is getting interesting. I popped my Casino Verite version 3.0 CD in the drive . . . and discovered that my CD is corrupted. Oh well, time to update anyway. For now, I downloaded the latest demo versions from Qfit and continued.

    The install ran without a hitch, and I was really getting excited, since I had never gotten this far with earlier versions of Wine. As with Frugal VP, it even put an icon on my desktop.

    I clicked the icon. The screen flickered (which I had come to expect) . . . and I got the error message: "Component "AgentCtl.dll" or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid"

    Undaunted, I booted up a Windows box with CV installed, located the elusive "AgentCtl.dll" and copied it into the Windows\msagent directory on Wine's virtual drive_c.

    Unfortunately, this had no effect on the error message. Oh, well.

    I believe that it is possible to get Casino Verite to work under Wine, but I don't have the Windows expertise to do it. Besides, I have discovered another alternative, which I will discuss in a future post - and it works just great!

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    Norm Wattenberger
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    Norm Wattenberger: Re: Days of Wine and blackjack . . . and LInux and Casino Verite

    Run www.qfit.com/msagent.exe. That will install agentctl.dll.

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    Parker
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    Parker: Thanks. Unfortunately . . .

    > Run www.qfit.com/msagent.exe. That will install
    > agentctl.dll.

    Thanks for the tip. Sadly, it still gives me the same error message.

    Running from the command provides more info:

    parker@parker1:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/QFIT/CVBJ$ wine cvBJ4.exe
    err:menubuilder:WinMain unknown option -a
    err:menubuilder:WinMain unknown option -r
    fixmele:OleLoadPictureEx (0xa3dd04,774,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x33fae8), partially implemented.
    fixmele:OLEPictureImpl_SaveAsFile (0x12e138)->(0x130960, 0, (nil)), hacked stub.
    fixmele:OleLoadPictureEx (0x154e574,774,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x33fae8), partially implemented.
    errle:CoGetClassObject class {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} not registered
    errle:CoGetClassObject no class object {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} could be created for context 0x1
    errle:CoGetClassObject class {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} not registered
    errle:CoGetClassObject no class object {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} could be created for context 0x1
    errle:CoGetClassObject class {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} not registered
    errle:CoGetClassObject no class object {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} could be created for context 0x1
    fixmele:OleLoadPictureEx (0x154e574,1290,1,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x33fab8), partially implemented.
    fixmele:OleLoadPictureEx (0x154e574,1266,1,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x33fab8), partially implemented.
    errle:CoGetClassObject class {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} not registered
    errle:CoGetClassObject no class object {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} could be created for context 0x1
    errle:CoGetClassObject class {d45fd31b-5c6e-11d1-9ec1-00c04fd7081f} not registered
    errle:CoGetClassObject class {d45fd31b-5c6e-11d1-9ec1-00c04fd7081f} not registered
    errle:CoGetClassObject no class object {d45fd31b-5c6e-11d1-9ec1-00c04fd7081f} could be created for context 0x3
    errle:CoGetClassObject class {d45fd31b-5c6e-11d1-9ec1-00c04fd7081f} not registered
    errle:CoGetClassObject class {d45fd31b-5c6e-11d1-9ec1-00c04fd7081f} not registered
    errle:CoGetClassObject no class object {d45fd31b-5c6e-11d1-9ec1-00c04fd7081f} could be created for context 0x3

    The "unknown option" errors and "fixme" notifications aren't critical - I get those on other programs that run just fine.

    Any more ideas?

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    Norm Wattenberger
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    Norm Wattenberger: Re: Thanks. Unfortunately . . .


    Agentctl.dll is a standard part of Windows ME, XP and 2000. There is a thread at the below which gives some info.




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    Parker
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    Parker: Interesting

    > Agentctl.dll is a standard part of Windows ME, XP and
    > 2000. There is a thread at the below which gives some
    > info.

    It may be a standard part of Windows, but it isn't a standard part of Wine, at least not just yet.

    Thanks for the link. It's nice to know that some people have had some success running CV products in Wine.

    However, I've had better luck running in a virtual machine, about which I'll be posting when I have more time.

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    Norm Wattenberger
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    Norm Wattenberger: Re: Interesting

    It does run under Windows 7 under Virtualbox

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